Intimidator™ Scan LED and SD3 not working

hi scott,
it looks like you have most of your trouble shooting done right.

that being said I can't say i know how the Intimidator works?
How many of those do you have?
do you have another fixture or dimmer pack or dmx fixture you can test to see if it works?

Maybe you need switch 1 and 10 on the Intimidator?

I recommend not to use a profile to test if the SD3 works.
for fixture 1, use 32 DMX channels.

that way you can read your intimidator manual and work with individual channels to see if it works.

The intimidator gets DMX signal the second you plug it into the console whether you have a profile assigned or not, so i believe its a setting in your lights.

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way you can read your intimidator manual and work with individual channels to see if it works.

I called chauvet. They said have dip switch 10 on which isn't in the manual. So I am going to give that a try.

thanks

I forgot to mention we have 4 elation design spots 250. They work perfect. So the board is working.

Why they used 4 design spots and 14 chauvet leds is very odd, I would of got 4 more design spots which are brighter. lol

So its most likely the dip switch 10 not being on.

After spending a few hours working on this. I still could not get the scanners to respond to controller. The only thing I can think of is the pins in the cables are reversed, which I doubt cause I have used different sets of cables.

I even went directly form scanner to controller on output 2 setting it on channel 1 as the fixtures.

Hi J Scott,
well since the SD3 works with Power spots then we know its working fine.

I think at this point the those intimidators wont work with any controller.
it could be the DMX driver chips are burnt.

your only other trouble shooting option is to test them with another console. if they still don't work then you know for sure its the lights and you need to send them in for service.

We found out the dip switch label that says on is actually off. So it works now. Chauvet sent their own board over night and it didn't work. So we just switched the dip switches on all the fixtures. So they had a bad batch, well not bad, just misprinted batch.